HillFaith Blog: Good News for Hill Staffers
Welcome to HillFaith:Good News for Hill Staffers! This is where you’ll find two types of content:
First, fact-driven, thoroughly researched and often highly personalized Christian apologetics. Second, news and analyses about working on the Hill, including things like who's being promoted, what are the best (and worst!) offices to work for, salary information, and much else.
Here at HillFaith, we appreciate the importance, the challenges and the complexities of the work you do we are passionate about being a positive, informative resource for those in the trenches.
Most importantly, we want to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He is alive and He is "the way, the truth and the life." He is also the key to living the abundant life. Not materially, but in the Truth that sets you forever free.
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: When Someone Claims The Crusades Prove Christianity Is Just As Violent As Islam
Listen to a conversation on the Hill among congressional staffers about the Crusades and it’s a near certainty that somebody will claim these Middle Ages wars between Christians and Muslims prove Christianity is just as violent as Islam. There is some truth behind that statement, but it’s not what you might be expecting. What it…
Why Are All My Friends Becoming Marxists (Most Don’t Realize That’s What They’re Doing)?
Jon Harris is the author/thinker/critic behind “Conversations That Matter” on Patreon and elsewhere on the Internet. He is a born-again Christian of the Reformed persuasion and a traditional American conservative. But don’t let that description put you off because Harris is also a very perceptive, observant and articulate critic of all sides of contemporary culture…
Dr. Francis Collins Explains What Led Him From Atheism To Jesus (Yes, THAT Francis Collins!)
Dr. Francis Collins is probably best known as the former director of the National Human Genome Research Institute from 1993 to 2008. But there is another distinction in his biography that is equally unusual. That distinction is the fact Collins was appointed to head the National Institutes for Health (NIH) by President Barack Obama in…
What If ‘That Hideous Strength’— The Magician’s Twin — Has Already Arrived Among Us?
Daniel Bell, the great American sociologist of the 20th century, once declared that “the essence of modernity is that nothing is sacred.” Dostoevsky put it a little more precisely: “If God is dead, then everything is permitted.” Just how right the sociologist and novelist were was foreshadowed by a brilliant and prophetic novel written in…
Life’s Origin: Lab + Information = Mind
No, that headline isn’t some sort of mysterious lost formula gifted to Earthlings eons ago by incredibly advanced interplanetary visitors, it expresses the complex, sequenced information required for life’s function and origin. It’s also at the heart of the fascinating conversation that results when two guys who happen to both highly accomplished scientists and disciples…
MARRIAGE AND FAMILY: Polyamory, The Next Step Down The Slippery Slope
Hundreds of congressional staffers are in positions of influence regarding family and social policy in the U.S., so developments like the growing acceptance of polyamory in elite media like the New York Times should be of interest. Not sure what polyamory is? What it’s not is polygamy — one husband, many wives — nor is…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Friday’s Poached Egg
Then Jesus said (to Nicodemus): ““For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through Him.” —…
Researchers Making Tremendous Progress, Finding ‘Junk DNA’ Is Anything But Useless
It’s been all but axiomatic for some time that 80 percent of DNA is “junk DNA,” but things are happening at an increasingly rapid pace as researchers are uncovering more and more evidence that that junk is in fact quite purposeful. Check this out from Evolution News (EN): “The first publications from the ENCODE project…
Why I Signed The 2018 Statement On Social Justice And The Gospel
The Bible at Galatians 3:28 declares that, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” There is no more clear a statement of the fundamental equality of all men and women in all of human literature, whether ancient or…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: Joy Lee is Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s new Press Secretary, moving up from the Deputy Press Secretary position. Joy began her congressional career working as a Press Assistant for the California Democrat in 2015. Joy earned a BA in digital and broadcast journalism in 2014 from the University of Georgia. Heading…